11. One day, he received a text from an unfamiliar address on his phone. “The world will be ending very soon.” An ominous message. But at the time, as he was feeling uncomfortable with what was now his fourth job and disheartened, the message was somewhat refreshing. Kousaka closed his eyes, and briefly enjoyed a vision of the world ending. The sky turned red, sirens wailed through town, unhappy news played on the radio. He imagined the scene at length. It may sound absurd, but Kousaka was saved by that imprudent message. A baseless consolation, effectively a lie, was just what he needed at the time. When he looked it up later, he found the message was forcibly sent from a device infected with malware called “Smspacem.” Malware is a programming term referring to malicious software or programs that cause computers to behave irregularly. Most people refer to all such things as “computer viruses,” but technically, a virus is no more than a sub-category of malware. To describe Smspacem briefly, it’s “malware that informs people the world is ending.” Infected devices, on the date 5/12/11, were made to send a message about the world